Brien Lang News

The Wilbury Theatre Group presents the world premiere of The Race by Mark Binder, directed by Brien Lang.  This challenging new play, done in an emerging new performance medium, examines the common, and sometimes uncommon, obstacles of a high-pressure corporate interview dance in the Zoom era.  Performances will be held on Zoom January 15 – 31, 2021. 

The Wilbury Theatre Group and WaterFire Providence have released production photos from Decameron, Providence: New Stories for a New Era. 

The Wilbury Theatre Group and WaterFire Providence announce Decameron, Providence: New Stories for a New Era. 

The Wilbury Theatre Group and WaterFire Providence have announced Decameron, Providence: New Stories for a New Era.

Aaron Blanck is back for a third round of stupendous silliness this Saturday, May 23rd at 8pm for 'Fill in the Blanck: An Epic Game Show' Live on Epic's Facebook Page.

After a widely successful first round of streaming events, The Wilbury Group announces new events to be streamed through May 6. In addition to the previously announced performances of New and Dangerous Ideas by Christopher Johnson and CVK.

The Wilbury Theatre Group announces a new calendar of classes, performances, and events to be live-streamed on the company's Facebook and YouTube pages from now until April 12.

The Wilbury Theatre Group continues its 2019/20 Main Series season into the new year with the Rhode Island premiere of David Greig's global hit play, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.

The Wilbury Theatre Group continues its 2019/20 Main Series season into the new year with the Rhode Island premiere of David Greig's global hit play, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.

The Wilbury Theatre Group's new works development program Studio W announces the limited run of a new play by Resident Playwright Darcie Dennigan, RESCUE! Or, The Fish, with performances scheduled for October 30-November 3 at The Wilbury Theatre Group performance space.

The Wilbury Theatre Group has announced the appointment of Max Ponticelli as the company's new General Manager. In this role, Ponticelli will oversee all operational and administrative aspects for the award-winning nonprofit theatre and will assist The Wilbury Group's Artistic Director, Board, and leadership team in the implementation of the company's mission statement and vision. Ponticelli begins his role as general manager effective September 1, 2019.

The Burn runs until February 3 at the The Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence, R.I.

The Wilbury Theatre Group kicks off the New Year with the New England premiere of Philip Dawkins' The Burn, presented in conversation with More Weight: A Derivative New Work inspired by Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' by director Logan Serabian. Performances for The Burn and More Weight are scheduled for January 10 - February 3, 2019.

If you took two plutonium hemispheres labeled 'American folk tradition' and 'cerebral poetry' and smashed them together in a critical mass, the musical 'Futurity' would be the resulting atomic explosion. The Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence has captured the chaotic energy of this show in a production that is uplifting, thought-provoking, and totally enjoyable.

The Wilbury Theatre Group continues its record-breaking 2018/19 season with the Rhode Island premiere of the avant-americana musical by Cesar Alvarez and The Lisps, Futurity, December 6-23, 2018.

The Wilbury Theatre Group continues its record-breaking 2018/19 season with the Rhode Island premiere of the avant-americana musical by Cesar Alvarez and The Lisps, Futurity, December 6-23, 2018.

In a ceremony at the Viacom Center in New York, Providence's Wilbury Theatre Group accepted the prestigious 2018 National Theatre Company Award. Wilbury Founder and Artistic Director Josh Short accepted the award from Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, Chairman of the Board of The American Theatre Wing, best known as the creator of the Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards.

The American Theatre Wing recently held its gala honoring the recipients of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grants. Check out the photos below!

This subversive, loopy, and fantastically eccentric take-think banjos, beach balls, and guitars-on Gilbert and Sullivan's preposterous musical took audiences in Chicago by storm when presented by rebel theatre-makers The Hipocrites. Frederic was mistakenly apprenticed as a young boy to a band of sentimental pirates. Now 21, he falls head-over-heels for the Major-General's daughter and forswears the buccaneer's life forever, or so he thinks. This buoyant, award-winning Pirates of Penzance by Sean Graney and Kevin O'Donnell and featuring just 12 actors (who also serve as the orchestra) is an irrevent and fresh homage to a world turned upside-down for Gilbert and Sullivan diehard fans and newcomers alike.

The Wilbury Theatre Group's Artistic Director Josh Short has announced the Group's 2018/19 Main Series Season. The exciting 6 play season includes plans for revivals of classic plays from the American canon alongside experimental new works by the brightest theatre artists working today, including Paul Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, Idris Goodwin's hip-hop inspired drama Hype Man: a break beat play, Cesar Alvarez and The Lisps' 2016 avant-Americana musical Futurity, a minimalist interpretation of Arthur Miller's American classic The Crucible, Nick Payne's Constellations, and the 2015 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's Fun Home, based on the graphic novel by Allison Bechdel.